December 2009
4 posts
Merry Christmas and goodbye from me (for now!)
If I was the apologising sort I would apologising for the long delay in posting, but once you see what I’ve been working on, I am sure you will understand.
This year I decided to give the old nativity scene an RNZ twist. It truly is incredible what you can do with some toilet roll inners, scrap coloured card, some filling from cushions, and your imagination.(As if anyone needs cushions at...
Magic Eyes (You've got them)
As it’s getting to be that busy time of year, today I thought we’d look at something that’s fairly straightforward and quick to make: Magic Eyes.
They’re also known as Ojo De Dios or “Eye of God”, if you want to get fancy about it, but to be honest I don’t like to call them that as it reminds me too much of the all - seeing Mary, and if there’s one...
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Christmas: it's the thought that counts
As you may be aware, it’s been belt tightening season here at RNZ. We’ve all been asked for our thoughts on how to make the money go further (or at least have enough so we can stop “letting people go”), so when big PC asked for ideas about how we could save on the traditional Christmas spend up, I knew exactly what to suggest - we could make these little angels and glue...
November 2009
3 posts
Pasta casta
Now, we hear a lot these days from those gluten-intolerant namby-pambys talking about how pasta isn’t any good, but I say they don’t know what they’re talking about.
I’m fair sweaty under the kilt about all the projects I’ve been working on this week, which is why we’re going to spilt this tutorial into two posts: first, we’ll be looking at all the items...
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Dipping your wick
So to speak.
Today we’ll be looking at candle dipping.
So many people say to me, “Sean, as a well paid and high profile morning radio journalist, isn’t it just as easy, if not quicker,for you to just go down to the Red Shed and buy some pre-decorated candles?”
To which I reply:
“You’re missing the bloody point.”
Candle dipping is a venerable old...
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Welcome
Hi, and welcome to the first post of my new blog.
I’ll get straight to the point.
As some of you may know, recently my “employers” at Radio NZ decided that I would not be permitted to write a column in well-known Auckland based magazine.
However, I’m not one to let the bastards keep me down.
Hence this blog.
Now that I have so much time in the day - after all, I do...